Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Media Malpractice: 2015 Edition

The american public's confidence in the media reaches an all time low, and the reason is simple. You can't rely anymore that when the media brings you a story, it's written honestly and fairly. Unfortunately today, journalists sometimes look more like activists, and most of the time to the liberal side.

To compile in one blog post all the instances that the media sinned this year wouldn't turn out well. The blog post will be longer than the wall of china (which is a big fat and beautiful wall. Probably thanks to Mr. Trump). Therefore I'll just bring to your light a few of the instances that the media was caught with their Hands in the cookie jar.



That time when some emails leaked out that Mike Allen from politico tried to get an interview with Chelsea Clinton, and promised that he will go over with her all the questions in advance

And the chutzpah of the Washington post for reporting the event as 'Politico gave the GOP a 'liberal media talking point', instead of actually reporting the news as a straight forward terrible journalistic malpractice.
After the Politico emails, some more emails were leaked out, and this time showing how a CNN reporter colluded with Clinton aides into the way she should report some news. fxn.ws/1PajayN


And then some more emails from Hillary were released, and you could see there how influential they were on some reporters at the times.

The old grey lady disregarded lots of journalistic standards this year. They tried to bring down Marco Rubio by reporting how his wife got 13 speeding tickets, and framed it to say that Rubio and his wife got 17 speeding tickets in the past 20 years. They falsely reported that Rubio bought a luxury boat. And so on and on. My time will go to waste if I count out everything. So here's just a few examples of the NYT's dishonesty.


When they singled out the Jewish lawmakers, to try to give the perception that the only reason lawmakers opposed the Iran deal is because of their Jewishness. Disgusting is an understatement.

The hypocrisy of the times is stunning. Theyll go to the lengths of the earth not to offend Muslims, (by censoring any kind of bad stuff against Muhammad), but won't care about making a mockery of the pope, thereby offending thousands of Christians.
Are they just cowards and afraid of the Arabs? Makes sense. If you'll remember this infamous sky news report where the camera quickly turns away of showing the Charlie hebdo cartoon cover,  or the daily news that blurred out the Muhammad cartoon, but didn't blur out the offensive Jew picture,  you'll be forgiven to think that the media are just cowards, running scared of what will happen to them if they say a bad word on the Arabs, but knowing that the Jews and Christians won't do anything, making them into an easy target. Shame!
when they were happy to report that a new study shows that right wing extremists are more dangerous than terrorists. So what if doesn't match the facts. Who cares?



Lets see what some other media outlets have for us.



When gawker ran with this viral story of how Christie got kicked out of the quiet car, and how he was angry. Only for us to find out (via a passenger on the train), that the actual story doesn't even closely resemble the gawker story.





On a different story, but same with CBS. They can't just report the news as is, cuz that will be too damaging for Hillary Clinton. So what will they do? Frame it as a GOP issue, a critics thing, and like that no one will believe it anymore. Clever. Wicked.



When the "open-minded" Vox decided against hosting an article because it might imply opposition to abortion.  I guess in Vox open mind, all opposition is good, as long as it's my position.



When Bloomberg news shamelessly tweeted this, even tho the shooting had nothing of any kind with planned parenthood or with their opponents. But if maybe maybe someone will see the tweet, and make any resemblance with the shooting against the PP clinic (that was done by a right wing idiot who is against killing babies, but apparently not against killing adults), than all the dishonesty would be worth it.

That time when the media in america was obsessed with Cecil the lion, the obsession was so huge that one media outlet even ran a post on how the dentist who killed the lion donated to the romney campaign in 2012, because priorities.
 
BTW, The media obsession was so insane that even Zimbabweans didnt understand why america is making such a fuss out of it, and one Zimbabwean wrote this scathing oped to the times.

This Parody tweet of Salon speaks for itself!

But i saved the best for last. the infamous crazy Melissa harris perry, who is still employed by MSNBC. (Whoever thinks of a reason for why, should please post it in the comments section). this women provides fodder for the entire blogsphere to cover. i tried very hard to pick out the most outlandish stuff she said the past year. it was very hard, but i found a winner.

As known, the woman is obsessed with race issues, seeing race in even in her daily cereal bowl.


After reading all these above examples of media bias,

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